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Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, at that time a self-governing colony in Magna Graecia, located along the coast of Southern Italy. The date of birth is based on a statement by the Byzantine Greek historian John Tzetzes that Archimedes lived for 75 years.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a major source, sets this year at the beginning of the sixty-eighth Olympiad ... Isagoras being the annual archon at Athens; that is, 508/507 BC (the ancient calendars split years over modern ones). Lucretia therefore died in 508 BC.